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| home | -------- |:.|
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.------------' | ASCIIweb |:.|
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| .------------' You're looking at it! asciiweb is a system |:.|
| '------------. for formatting webpages into an all-text, |.:|
| publications | ASCII-art document. Your site looks the same |:.|
'------------. | in text and in a graphical browser, and it's |.:|
.------------' | low-bandwidth AND dynamic. |:.|
| research | |.:|
| .------------' Source available under the GPL. |:.|
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| interests | robotfindskitten |:.|
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.------------' | 'robotfindskitten' is a "Zen simulation," |:.|
| blog | originally written in C for DOS by Leonard |.:|
| .------------' Richardson but since ported to over 35 |:.|
| '------------. different platforms. Our flagship product is |.:|
| reading | the POSIX version, which is available in |:.|
'------------. | various distributions. New ports continue to |.:|
.------------' | trickle in. I've served as the de facto |:.|
| quotes | project manager for about a decade. |.:|
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| '------------. GEEK |.:|
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|''''''''''''''| The Dumonticon |:.|
| 001010101101 | |.:|
| 011011011001 | The Dumonticon is an experiment in |:.|
| 010011011011 | recursively hyperlinking a closed body of |.:|
| 110011010111 | documents. In this case, the documents are |:.|
| 100100001100 | the brain of an IRC chatbot. It shows one |.:|
| 101001100111 | version of the latent interconnects of the |:.|
| 001101100101 | database. |.:|
| 001111000000 | |:.|
| 001010101101 | UFO Chicago |.:|
| 011011011001 | |:.|
| 010011011011 | I co-founded the Users of Free Operating |.:|
| 110011010111 | Systems group in Chicago (UFO Chicago), in |:.|
| 100100001100 | the early 2000s as a socially-oriented user |.:|
| 101001100111 | group. We're a part of the larger user group |:.|
| 001101100101 | community in Chicago, but we have our own |.:|
| 001111000000 | flavor. Even though I'm no longer living in |:.|
| 001010101101 | Chicago, the group has been meeting regularly |.:|
| 011011011001 | since. Mailing list archives are available |:.|
| 010011011011 | online. |.:|
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| 100100001100 | |.:|
| 101001100111 | MUSIC |:.|
| 001101100101 | ----- |.:|
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| 001010101101 | I'm a musician and have been involved with |.:|
| 011011011001 | several fun projects over the years. Here are |:.|
| 010011011011 | a few you can check out: |.:|
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| 100100001100 | Slow Learners |.:|
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| 001101100101 | Slow Learners is a project I'm involved with |.:|
| 001111000000 | consisting of several good friends from |:.|
| 001010101101 | college who live (or lived) in California. We |.:|
| 011011011001 | call the style California Porch Rock -- |:.|
| 010011011011 | loose, down-home, and fun. |.:|
| 110011010111 | |:.|
| 100100001100 | redvinegar |.:|
| 101001100111 | |:.|
| 001101100101 | redvinegar was the band I was a part of for |.:|
| 001111000000 | many years while living in Chicago. We |:.|
| 001010101101 | self-released three CDs and had a lot of fun |.:|
| 011011011001 | doing it. |:.|
| 010011011011 | |.:|
| 110011010111 | The Tastytronic Philharmonic |:.|
| 100100001100 | |.:|
| 101001100111 | Almost 15 years ago, my college roommate and |:.|
| 001101100101 | I created a space-rock-opera, The Last |.:|
| 001111000000 | Transmission from Starbase XY003. Several |:.|
| 001010101101 | years after the original "studio" recordings, |.:|
| 011011011001 | we made a live show out of it. Rumors persist |:.|
| 010011011011 | about a forthcoming prequel. |.:|
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| 100100001100 | Solo Projects |.:|
| 101001100111 | |:.|
| 001101100101 | Skates Sharpened and Repaired is a dormant |.:|
| 001111000000 | solo project focusing on exploratory lo-fi |:.|
| 001010101101 | recordings. |.:|
| 011011011001 | |:.|
| 010011011011 | LEGACY |.:|
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| 100100001100 | |.:|
| 101001100111 | TRON figlet font |:.|
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| 001111000000 | Saved thanks to the Internet Archive! |:.|
| 001010101101 | ______ ____ ___ _ _ |.:|
| 011011011001 | |_ _| |___ \ / _ \ | \ | | |:.|
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| 110011010111 | | | | _ \ | \_/ | | |~\ | |:.|
| 100100001100 | |__| |_| \_\ \___/ |_| \_| |.:|
| 101001100111 | |:.|
| 001101100101 | I created a TRON figlet font, based on the |.:|
| 001111000000 | TRON truetype font. This figfont only |:.|
| 001010101101 | displays letters, numbers, and normal |.:|
| 011011011001 | punctuation (no special characters). Full-on |:.|
| 010011011011 | figfonts are insanely detailed! Oh, also, |.:|
| 110011010111 | you'll probably want to use the -W flag on |:.|
| 100100001100 | figlet, which is "full width." Kerning is |.:|
| 101001100111 | cool, but it doesn't look very good with this |:.|
| 001101100101 | font. I'm also planning on making a more |.:|
| 001111000000 | deluxe font that's solid with different |:.|
| 001010101101 | texture characters to represent the |.:|
| 011011011001 | traditional "TRON shading." (Hah, phong |:.|
| 010011011011 | shaded figfonts!) |.:|
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| 100100001100 | Tom Waits Infobot Module |.:|
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| 001101100101 | "She's laughin in her sleeve, boys; |.:|
| 001111000000 | I can feel it in my bones." |:.|
| 001010101101 | |.:|
| 011011011001 | In another classic ripoff move by yours |:.|
| 010011011011 | truly, I took the "Zippy the Pinhead" infobot |.:|
| 110011010111 | module and the quotes page from the official |:.|
| 100100001100 | tom waits homepage as well as a few personal |.:|
| 101001100111 | favorite quotes (not Ben Franklin) and made a |:.|
| 001101100101 | Tom Waits quote module for the IRC Infobot by |.:|
| 001111000000 | Kevin Lenzo. You can see the Tom Waits module |:.|
| 001010101101 | in action in channel #tron on us.slashnet.org. |.:|
| 011011011001 | Instructions and the latest perl modules are |:.|
| 010011011011 | found here. |.:|
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| 100100001100 | The Floating HTML Head of Seth David Schoen |.:|
| 101001100111 | |:.|
| 001101100101 | I killed some time with the cool program |.:|
| 001111000000 | png2html. Here is my handiwork: |:.|
| 001010101101 | |.:|
| 011011011001 | * seth0.html -- the small one |:.|
| 010011011011 | * seth1.html -- the bigger yet manageable one |.:|
| 110011010111 | * seth2.html -- the Large and Ugly First Try. |:.|
| 100100001100 | Includes controverisial "non-Vergil" text. |.:|
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